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"he Monroe Journ voLxvm. ,r MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1911. ONE DOLLAR A TEAR. Doesn't Need the Pardon. 8t week Va4. Fletcher got a petttiou signed asking the Gover nor to pardon Watt Hamtt, col ored, who was serving a four year sentence on the chain gang for Itaim burning. He had al ready served two years and four mouths of the sentence and had lecn sick a long time. Yesterday the man died, before the (lovcrnoi had had tiuu to consider the je tition. There was little doubt that the petition would have been granted as it was signed by all the county officials ami was gen erally understood to mean merely to let the man get off in time to dii in freedom. He was convict ed on circumstantial evidence, and hia attorneys, Messra Adams & Amnfirld, were so certain 4 hat a mistake had Ih-cii made that they never ceased to try to do something for him, having carri ed the case to the Supreme Court at the time. Superintendent Fletcher bad the body dress ed for burial and relatives of the man carried the remains away to Marshville township yesterday. Dispensary Robbed. Some folks laid violent hands on the person of the I'nion Comi ty Medical Depository last Fri day night and from it actually stole 28 pints of liquor. They got into Mr. Preason's stow in which the dispensary is kepf by smashing out a panel of the rear door with n stick of wood. Once in t ho store the frail lock of tln pine cabinet in which the goods are kept was not of any large moment to the robbers. Nobody has been arrested, and it is not likely that there will Im any ar rests.as there was nothing about the liquor stolen by which it could be identified. This is the second time the storehouse of .spirits lui In en criwked. and it may become necessary for mana ger Prosson to buy a Moslur safe to keep it in. Royal Arcanum News. -At a regular meeting of Ad vanee Couiu-.il No. 5S!, Royal Ar cainim, held last night, the fol lowing officers were elected to serve the ensuing year: A. L Monroe. Regent; .1." Maxter Wil- liniiis. Vice Regent; W. Henry Austin, Orator; John F. Corrcll, Chaplain; W. C. Wolfe, Secreta ry; . 15, Lancv. Treasurer; Jas. Mt-Neely. Colin-tor; C. F. Cadieu. Guide; J. W. SteplK'iison, War d n; II. A. Privett, S(qitry. Hep. rrse.ntat.ive to Grand Council, A. L. Monroe; alternate, S. H. Hart. Trt.stees, F. H. Asherat't. M. C. Long, S. It. Hart. A committee was apjointed con sisting of C. F. Cadieu, J. 1). Par ker and C. 15. Laney to mako ar rangements for some solid re freshments to be served on the night of January 8th, 11112, whqn the newly elected officers will e installed. The Royal Area mini is one of out most pnwperous fraternal or ders, and its insurance features has been of great benefit to this community, more than one hun dred thousand dollars having Ihm'ii paid out to the families of deceased members in the past .'10 years. Political Lynching in Mexico. (.Mexico City Dispatch, 5th.) "Che" Gomez, whose rebellion at Juehitaa resulted in a clash between PrcsLd.Mit Madero and tho Governor of Oaxaere, was lynch ed this afternoon at Rincon An tonio. Eight of (iomez 's partisan m t a like. fate. Gomez, who was on hia way to the capital accompanied by ten of bis follower, was taken from the train at Rj.ici11 Antonia. Oax aea, yesterday afternoon and put in jail by older of Gov Minor Jua rez, in pite of the fact that he had been promised safe com! net by the Presideut and had a pass port sigued by the Executive. He and eight of bis follower were taken from the jail by a mob of residents of th little town, aug mented by hundreds from the neighboring regions, inarched two milts from town and hot to death. "The Garden of Mr. Henry Fairley tonight. Dreams" by at the Dixie Death of Capt B. F. Richardson. ("apt. It. F. Richardson died at the home of his son in Ruford township Friday night. He had been sL-k about two weeks with leiimoina aim oilier irouoies. r .incral services wire hchl bv Dr. J. II. Weaver and Kev. E. S. Richardson on Sat unlay, and the intenucnt was at Hethlehem. Capt. Kichanlson has for many yeaiM been regarded as one of the best and most influential men of the county. In jicaee and in war he was a trusted leader of hi people. He was Ihmh and rear ed in the locality in which be died and was always an influence for good. He served faithfully during the war and was Captain of Co. I, 48th North Carolina RegJ intent. He was not a "hater," but he loved the cause for which he fought and kvet the men who were his comrades. At one of the reunions not long ago he bought a good suit of Confederate gray and kept it very carefully, tell ing his son that he wished to be buried in it. His wish was com plied with. (apt. Richardson reached his 75th birthday the 28th of last May. His wife had died some 15 years ago, and after all his chil dren had been reared it became necessary for him to break np house keeping and go to live with his son. He was since boyhood a member of the Methodist church and one of it.s most faith ful supporters. He filled the of fices initially assigned to laymen and for many years was superin tendent of the Sunday School, lie was a man of the strictest integ rity and enjoyed the resject and confidence of all. The children surviving Capt. Richardson are: Messrs. P. V. and J. W. Richardson and Mes dames P. W. Plylcr, W. T. lath- a it, .Mary nosier, uora .uoser. IK bora h Moser, and Miss liright Richardson. Hesides these are many grand children. At the time ol' Ji:. death Capt. Richardson was a meiiilvcr of the county pension board, serving in the position carefully and useful I, Jle had also in ycaw gone hy ser ved as county coinmisioner. Hut he never desired to hold public office, prcfering to live quietly at home with his family and neighbors. He was a good man. Recorder's Court Proceedings. Dec. 5 12. Hill Williams, colored, dispos ing of mortgaged property, costs ti:xed on prosecutor. John Maynor. assault with dead ly weMui. not guilty. Ellis Williams of (ioosc Creek township npiM'ured and showed good behavior and was discharg ed from a eace bond. James Covington, colored, hr- sault, $10 and costs. This man beat, his w4i Wheeler Smith, colored, viola tion of ordinance 76, $10.00 and costs. Hriee Howie, violation of ordi nance in. costs. O. A. Nash, disposing of mort gaged vroierty, not guiltv. . A. Nash, resisting officer, costs. Walter Hrooks. assault with a deadly weapon. $10 and costs. T. Ii. Davis, violation of ordi nate ib. costs. Lizzie Wiggins, colored, viola tion of ordinance 76, ItO dava in jail. In this case the Recorder ordered that the jail sentence Ive- come effective in 24 hours. This was done to rid the town of the defendant. Hob Phifer. colored, violation of ordinance 76. $2.5(1 and eonta. P. ud Poster, colored, violation of ordinance 76, $2.50 and cost.s. (Iny Crowell, violation of ordi nance 76, costs. Guy Crowell carrying concealed weapons, $! and costs. Minnie w at kins, removing crop, $l.i ami costs. Mr. John F. Smyre, of of the oldest ami best known business men in Newton, assigned Tues day. Formerly he was of the firm of Smyre. Rhyne & Co.. general merchants, but after many years in that himiness, he closed out and bought a grocery business. Liabilities estimated at $3,000 with a wets at some thing like $6,000. NO HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Cue That Excited People a Lot Saturday Night and Sunday Turned Out Different from the First Reports Whiskey the Cause of the Trouble. A Chinese riot and the loss of a thousand pigtails would hare caused no more excitement than did a report here Saturday night that a highway robbery had been attempted on the Lee mill wad east of town, and that Mr. J. W. Smith, an express messenger, had been attacked in a buggy and badly cut to pieces. The truth seems to be that Smith left town under the influence of whiskey and got into a difficulty with Mr. Martin Privet t who lives on the old McLarty place a mile east of town, and got pretty severely cut with a pocket knife. The real facts will probably not be fully known till the matter is sifted out in court. Smith pot a horse and buggy from Sikes' stables about dark Saturday night and said he was going to the neighborhood of Wingate and go possum hunt ing. Some time afterward the home dashed back to town and an examination showed blood in large quantities in the huggv. An alarin was given ami county and city officers started out to find Smjjh, assisted by citizens. It was wome two hours or more he fore he was found, ami then he had just wandered up to the home of Mr. Vernon Ijockhart be tween town and Lee's mill. lie said that he had leeii attacked on the road and used np without any provocation whatever. lie had lost blood heavily and was quickly brought to Dr. Payne.! who found that there was a gush some ten niches lonir in his buck ami one thumb had been nearly cut oft. The back wound was allow. On Sunday Mr. Privet t came up and admitted that he had don the out ting ami told his storv of it. He said that he and Mr. Dock Vow were riding home in a bug- gy when they were overtaken In ."Mini ii, who drove neiore tlicm. insisted on their drinking with him, and then that one of thnn should ride with him. Mr. Yow got in the buggy with him and they drove up to Privctt's house Smith in the most violent and aluisive language, ordered one of .i . i ri i . . i . i lie eniKuvn to get lillil matches. and began to en me things in gen eral till Privett came up. lb then began using such insulting language concerning Mrs. Privett and the children that Privett ad vanecd on him and ordered him to move on away. Smith then jumped out of the buggy and they clashed, falling with Smith on toi. Privett then got out his knife and began cutting. Yaw then jerked Smith up and the latter got in his buggy and whip ped back towards town. About the branch below Mr. M. K. Lee's he fell out of the buggy and tluli wandered on foot for two hours till he came up at Mr. Loekhart's low corroborates Privett. and some other witnesses who s.iw the man on the road substantiate some ot the detail. And a pool of blood in Privett 'a ya.rd shows that the cutting was done there. Smith lives at Wingate. His wife, who is a niece of Mr. W. R. Oiiten. is spending some time at the hitter's and when Smith passed there going out he said that he was going possitiu hunt ing and would be back some time during the night. To the Citizens of Monroe. I have not asked the citizens of Monroe at any time for their taxes for 1!M1. I tut now I am coms'lled to do so. on account of the pressing obligations that the city must meet. Interest to the amount of $5000 on our bomlid indebtedness nii.M now be paid, as well as $2000 of the water ami light bonds that musd be paid off January 1st. The city's credit dermis upon the prompt pay ment of our obligations, hence it is earnestly hoped that the citi zens will call and pay their taxes during the month of Deeeuiltir. iKin't wait for me to pitsh you up further, but stand by your town prompt I v when it m-edsyoii. T. L. Crowell. Citv Tax Collector. Some News Around Mars vi lie. Marshville Home. Town and city farmers are not the only mica who went wild ov er cotton last fall. The big land owners deckled to get rich this fall and they too planted nearly everything in cotton. Mr. ii. i . .Morgan h.is move into his residence in the eastern part of the town. Mr. Morgan comes from Ijiucs reek town ship and is one of the Ust eiti zeiis in the count v. He will i-oii duet a hoarding house. Mr. T. C. Medlin. of New Sa lem township, returned Saturday night from the Charlotte Sana toriimi, where he has been receiv ing treatment for liver troubl His condition is slightly improv ed. WhiiV cutting wood last Thurs day Mr. Walden Griffin, sou of Mr. Ellis Griffin, of White Store township, Anson comity, inLssei the object of his aim and cut i gash in his foot which Dr. W . Harrett sewed up, using live stitches. Mr. Oscar Thomas, of Marsh ville township, and Miss Fannie Pope, of Iaues Creek township, were married Sunday afternoon "Solicitor" T. (I. Collins per forming the ceremony. It was the philosopher's third perform ance in this kind of work, but thev do sav he did it in his usu al scientific manner. When vou strike territory along the lino between I'nion and Anson counties, the rabbits are almost as plentiful as they are in Chath am county ami the tlavor is I'ul Iv as gnat. A crowd of hunt "... t el's, u) t lu couiniuniiy near .ur C. P. Griffin's, killed fifty mem bers of the tribe that has inadt Chatham famous. Marriages in Chesterfield. Pageland News and Scout. The beautiful home of Mr. 1 M. Aran! four miles west of town was the scene of a pntty wed ding in three o'clock when Mr I. K .ithrii I'uudeibuik and Miss llattie Louixa A rant were unitec in marriage oy the impressive ceremony perlormed by Rev. Mr Graham. ,f Jefferson. The bride is a da'ughter of Mr John A. A runt and is a modest, upright, and attractive young lady, who has many well wish ing friends. .Mr. and Mrs. Fundi Hun k w ill make their home at Trad-sville, .Mr. ( lias. II. hiimlei'burk and Mi.ss Sallie Slepluiisun. both ol' ( rowburk, were married Thankw- giviug day at the home of the omeaung magistrate. I he groom is a son ot Mr. John Funderburk of Dudley, and is a young gen tleiuan of good character, who has a host of friends to wish him a long and prosperous life. Tin bride is a daughter of Mr. Will Stephiwon, and is a pretty and at tractive young lady. Mr. and Mrs. Funderburk will make their home at Crowhurk. White Men Pall-Bearers for an Old-Time Negro. (Raleigh News and Observer.) A peculiar mark of respect was paid to a Cumberland coimtv colored man last week bv white people of Fayetteville. The col ored man was Umltord Christ mas, whose life of devotion in e service of his furiifr master. Col. Wharton J. Green, gave him warm place in the hearts of the family of Colonel Orcein. And when he died white people sent flowers to go on his grave and a iiuhiiIhm of the leading white cit izens acted as pall-bearers. Dur ing the war he acted m body servant to Colonel Green at the front. Mr. Rowell Gone Back Home. Waxhaw Enterprise. Rev. J. W. Rowell. State lect urer of t lie A. r. tfc A. M., who has Ihvh awav from this section number of veal's, moved back to his home in the I'aptist church eommiriiitv last week. The College Hill Farmers' I'n- lou some tune ago nought a corn .hredder in order to better han lle .their corn crops. Most of the people are having their corn "shredded ami the machine is ri(i- ning on full time. The work is proving very satisfactory to those who have tried it. Brooks Brasswell. (Corresjmndeiice of The Journal) The hiMiie of Mr. ami Mr. N. W. ltraswcl! near I'uioiiville w the wene of a pretty wedding Wednesday. Nov. 11 h at three thirty o'clock, when their daugh ter. Miss Ora Cornelia, was hap pily married to Mr. Fisher A. Hrooks. To the strains of Men delssohn wedding march render ed by Miss Erccl Price, the bride tastefully dressed in a haiilmc brown coat suit entered the par lor on the arm of her grandfath er, Mr. J. Miltmi Itraswell. pre ceded by her maid of honor. Miss Clara Purser, a niece of the bride, beautifully gowned in cream sat iu. The groom with his cousin, Mr. Jack Little, best man, entered from the opposite side of the parlor. The bride ami groom met under a Im H of white chrysanthemums, and the words which united them in tlte holy bonds of wedlock were impress ively spoken bv Rev. M. I). L. Preslar in the presence of a large number of friends ami relatives. Immediately after the ceremo ny the happy couple left for the home of the groom s lather, Mr. A. J. Hrooks in Marshville town ship, where a reception was giv en them. The bride is a beautiful and attractive young lady with a host of friends. The groom is an in dustrious young man of excel lent worth. Mr. ami Mrs. Hrooks were the recipients of many valuable and useful presents. Cotton Ginning Breaks Record. Washington. Dec. H. North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia have ginned this far this year more cotton than ever be fore was grown within their bor ders. All cotton growing states ex cept Arkansas. Mississippi, Okla homa and Tennessee already k'hi ned more cotton than was grown in the Mates last vear or tin ear- b.-fme. necordiuir fn ;hc census Inn. Miii s cotton report is sued today sliowini; the iriiiiiintr prior to Deei iiiIm r 1. lo that date there has been gin hed in the l lilted Mates a total of 12.S14.Nl2 bub's, exceeding the total season's irliiniiur of everv year except l!K4. l!M'6 and 1!MS and comiu within tl'iT.lHMI bale c ii ..i i .... OI llle lollll Kluneil in r.104. lhe record vear. During the p.M'iod between No vember 14 and December 1. an average of 107,256 hales of cot ton was ginned. The census bureau s sixth cot ton ginning report ot the seas on, iks u M at 10 a. 111. today and showing the number of running bales, counting round as half bales, of cotton of the growth of lilll ginned prior to Deccmbcr with comparative statistics to the corre.sKindiiig date for the past three ycai-s, is as follows: United States : 12,S14.N12 hales, ccmparcd with lo.l t!. 712 bales last year, when S7.7 per cent of the entire crop was irin- ned prior to December 1; S.- S76.SS6 bales in !!, when SS.l per cent was gtiuuil; and 11,- 008.661 bales in I'lOH. when S4.1 i.m1 cent was ginned. The unmix r of round bales in luded were S7.567. compared. with 101. 1 18 bales last vear. V - i:t bales in I'MiM. and 2nl.4.s0 in 1!08. The number of bales of en is land cotton included wi re 87.457, compared with bb.iiiib bales last ear, 7i.5!M bales in 1!M !, mid 6S!!t(i bales in 1!MIS. Levi M. Scott, aged 84. and said to have been the oldest lawyer in active practice in North Carolina li.tl 111 Greensboro Tuesday from the effects of a fall Sniurdav morning. He hail belli lllieoM- sioiks since the tall. .Mr. Scot I had been practicing law in ireciislHiro for 60 years and was wealthv citizen. North Carolina last week won the grand sweepstakts for best State exhibit, first on collection of nuts, first for sub-tropical fruits, first for canned and pre- servl iby-products. first for com mercially packed fruit and first and second for apples, at the Na tional Horticultural Congress at St. Joseph, Mo. Investigation of Pellagra and the Result. t Washingfou Dispatch.) After many mouths of investi gation of pelhigra in the South ern Stall, the seicut'h! of the public health and mariue hospi tal service an- in as much doubt as ever as to the cause of this seoiirg.'. Meanwhile the disease seems to le gaining and it has been reMtrted that marly every physician in South Carolina has from 5 to 15 cas-s in his private practice. Assistant Surgeon General Juo. I), liong. says it has la-en demon strated that cimi can lie effect ed even up to the fifth attack, but there is little hope when the patient has reached the tage of insanity. Pellagra has lecn found to lie a seasonal disease and it is thought that the greatly varyiug temperature of South Carolina may be partly resoiisihle for its prevalence there. The invest igators have found that the greatest number of eases develop during the spring and autumn months when there an sudden and marked changes in the weather. Comparison of pellagra in the U. S. with pelhigra in Ita ly, where the disease is common, has proved that the attack is much more severe in this eouutr.i. Children, it has Immmi found, res pond to treatment much more sat isfactorily than do adults, and show the greatest ercentage of recoveries. When the disease has reached the point of producing insanity, a suicidal tendency de velops and nearly all pellagra victims choose drowning. Cotton seed oil. Indian com, certain classes of vegetables and a recently discovered gnat arc among the supposed causes, but the disuse still is a mystery to the scientists. Death in the Cqal Mine. Hriceville, Tisnr'ssc.'. December 10 Soin.-whi re in the depths of the Cross Mountain coal min probably one hundred 1111 11 lie dead tonight, while their sorrow stricken families keep vigil at the mouth of their tomb, hopinir against hope that their hived ones may be alive when rescuers reach them. Eight torn and mangled bodies had been brought forth at night fall, when search was abandoned for the day. Outside of the im mediate famili. of the eutombeil men, 110 one in this little moun tain village believes that any living thing in the mine yester day morning survived the terrif fic explosion of coal dust that wrecked the workings. For more than thirtyix bouts every surviving miner in this re gion had toiled with 110 thought of food, sleep or pay to remove the debris and fonec fresh air in to the innermost recsses of the mine. They itractieaUv have immi- et rated to the main entrv head nearly tliree miles in. Tomorrow they cxMct to be ready to work the cross entries 111 which the oth er bodies nave undoubtedly been east hy the foive of the blast. Hlaek damp developed late to day and retarded progress, but tin' silent force pushed d;iiintltss ly on. some of them till they were carried out overcome by the nox ious gases. Thousands of the morbidly cu rious flocked into the village to day ami crowded the main entry of the mine. They saw nothing, because there was nothing to .see but the pitiable grief of the stricken families. All of the hoditM recovered have licen identified. Among them was that of Will Farmer, assist ant foreman of the mine. The top of his bend had been blown off. He is survived by a widow and two childivu. There is hardly a family in the entire Coal Creek Valley that has not felt the icy tom-h of death. The problem of earing for the widows and orphans will be a grave one requiring immediate so lution. Certainly Hriceville will Ik- unable to care for her Irving with most of the wage earners numbered among the d -ad. "The Garden of Mr. Henry Fairby tonight. Dreams" by at the Pixe" a
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